80% of Customers Will Opt-Out of a Purchase After Reading Negative Reviews Online

While 78% of Recruiters Routinely Use Search Engines To Learn More About Candidates

Online Reputation Management Services

Reputation Management

With the wealth of information at our fingertips, consumers of today are taking advantage by researching online prior to making purchasing decisions. Starting with a simple search for your brand name, potential customers, business partners and clients can see articles, reviews, ratings and profiles on you or your business. This has been a great asset for them, but it has the potential of becoming a hindrance for you.

Oftentimes, whether it is deserved or not, unfavorable information about us or our companies appears online. This negativity can appear almost anywhere: From an unsatisfied customer in the reviews section of our local profiles, within search results, autocomplete results, image search and more. When potential customers and clients see this information, it acts as a blemish on the reputation you’ve worked hard to establish, and can directly impact your bottom line.

“Create, Control & Conquer” Strategy

A common (and also, ineffective) approach to handling unfavorable information and results is to seek ways to have it removed. While feasible in some cases, this unfortunately isn’t an option or a wise use of time in most. At Interactually, we’ve developed our own strategy that we have found to be much more effective: our Create, Control & Conquer strategy.

The concept is simple: Rather than seek to remove negative information (which we do when possible), we focus on overpowering the negative information, either pushing it out of view or spinning it to give you or your company a favorable perception in response to a negative review.

Create
When beginning a reputation management project, the first thing we do is derive a creation strategy. Essentially, we find highly relevant opportunities to submit content, build profiles and create value; using search engine optimization and link building to build the relevance of these pages. Within reviews, we help you develop ways to encourage your customers and clients to post about their positive experience.
Control
In order to control your reputation, we will work with you and your team on how to handle negative reviews. Another common mistake is disregarding these reviews—especially with seemingly difficult customers. Instead, we highly recommend politely replying to these reviews and seeing if there is any way you can remedy their negative experience. Will they always change their mind about you? No, but other customers who read those negative reviews will immediately see your response and know that you care about their experience and listen to your customers.
Conquer
Once we have created an abundance of relevant content—both on your site and external sites and profiles—and driven positive reviews, negative reviews are drowned out and web pages are pushed beyond the 2nd page of search results (fewer than 1% of searches venture past the 2nd page).